works holds that redistribution should be both higher and more targeted at the poor under democracy. Yet comprehensive … historical data to test this claim has been lacking. This book shows that land redistribution - the most consequential form of … redistribution in the developing world - occurs more often under dictatorship than democracy. It offers a novel theory of land reform …

This paper shows that franchise extension is not enough for commitment to redistribution and that in the absence of de … democratic reform that extends the political rights of a threatening group and redistribution during periods of revolutionary … threat. Far from causing an increase in broad redistribution (e.g. social spending), I show that democratic reform - the …